Shortly after 8 p.m., police were alerted to an unresponsive person lying in an alley on the 7500 block of South Evans Avenue, said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Sgt. Antoinette Ursitti. A man was found with a ceramic knife in his chest, police said.

An autopsy today said the man died of multiple incise wounds and his death was ruled a suicide, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

SANFORD – Two 17-year-old Winter Springs High School football players accused of taking part in the gang rape of a teenage girl were back in juvenile court today. One tried to plead no contest but by the end of the hearing, that plan fell apart.

A parent of a fifth grader at Brookshire Elementary School in Winter Park was initially told she could not pick up her daughter, who was opting out of the state's new writing test, according to another parent who witnessed the incident this morning. That other parent said she called police.